Snailmail experience of 2006:
Sent package with RoyalMail in London to Bogotà, in Colombia in October 2006 … never made it to it’s destination.
Now in 2007 I get book sent through Amazon.com to the Netherlands, (not Swaziland!) and i get this:
Bastards!
That global warming is a hoax. Today in Amsterdam:
Last month in Amsterdam:
Once again, after my 2 summer geek brunches, I put together last night a new year geek apperitivo, seeing as the most italian of geeks: Massimo was visiting me.
People present last night:
Yasima Haryono & Robert
Ok so sue me I’m just too damn lazy to post up a picture of my real bike,but I’m really proud of my new (well second-hand) Gazelle bike which I bought last monday for way too much money. The lock was worth half the price of the bike but I am now still counting down the days till it gets stolen…
What Amsterdam gives, Amsterdam takes.
Canary Wharf dusk skyline
Originally uploaded by mbiddulph.
Some creatures hibernate till spring, refusing to face the cold of winter and preferring to stuff their face and sleep through it. I envy them. I guess I’ll be going through something similar because for the next 6 months i’ll actually stop traveling…
I took my last flight of 2006 today, making this my 15th relocation, my 16th flight this year, and after all this, impossible as it might seem, i’m on a break. So from now on till late spring, I’ll be exploring the dutch cultural landscape in much more depth and will hopefully also learn the language, on top of working hard for Blast Radius of course : )
Ok, so I’m sure this has been a little confusing for people to figure out where I am on any given week, but now it’ll be easy. As of next week, I am relocating to Amsterdam till late spring 2007. Hopefully I’ll find a cozy place of my own, I’m getting a bit tired of not having a place to buy plants for and decorate. So if you’re in that neck of the woods, come and say hi!
On my list of things to do: Make your own wearable workshop at Mediamatic, hunt for a flat, and buy a winter coat.
Pecha Kucha is coming up this fall in London on the 18th of October and on the 1st of December in Amsterdam and I feel incredibly temped to participate. For those of you who don’t know what this this, its a way for designers to talk about their work, network and meet potential clients as well potentially. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.
I wonder what i would present though: either Stickychat, The Hungries (Alejandro is presenting them at the Bogota edition), or maybe Stint.
Here is an eclectic collection of my favorite spots of Amsterdam after the past 2 months of explorations:
1. Dutch bikes (even if i barely owned one), they’re just so damn beautiful.
2. Japanese Pancake World, pancakes the true japanses way, the only restaurant in Europe.
3. Cafe Latei on Zeedijk 143, a very cute coffee place that sells all sorts of vintage 70s stuff from France.
4. “De Tuin” in Rotterdam, lovely spot next to a lake with great oak trees around.
5. Smaak in Rotterdam as well.
6. 11 a very trendy bar/restaurant/club with a terrace with big beanbags overlooking Amsterdam, the view is amazing.
7. Zandvoort a lovely beach 30 minutes train ride away from Amsterdam.
8. Soupenzo for the best lunch thick soups ever (try the tuscany tomato one or the roquefort and potato).
9. Fet, the butcher on Zeedijk, has the “Broodje Zeedijk” or the best sandwich that i’ve had in a long time.
10. New King a chinese takeaway on Zeedijk 115. Good duck but watch out for the bones… big plates, definitely not for a light lunch.
11. De Jaren an absolutely beautiful and chic café-restaurant with view on the canal on Nieuwe Doelenstraat.
12. The Stedelijk Museum‘s beautiful space and architecture. I went to see Airworld and Saskia Olde Wolbers’s The Falling Eye. They were both great and well curated.
Another 8 hour-long sunday brunch sun-dappling, eating lovely home made food and drinking wine, what else is life for? The weather was a bit moody this time around so we had to move inside for the end of it but we had a lovely time. The nice thing about professionals in my field and the surrounding fields as well is that everyone has signed NDAs and rather than talk about work, you end up talking about what really fascinates and moves you. That’s got to be the most beautiful thing in the world, to watch someone talk about what they love doing or what makes them tick. So a lazy sunday with great and smart people, what else do you need?
Present at Alex’s brunch version 2.0:
Ben
Lee, Yuki and Mika
Liz
Pablo.
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